The opening to this essay reminded me of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Further on it seems like pointless rambling when he discusses the stone being hard…. Who cares? Subjective stimulation? What’s the point of language then? So, yes, I agree, words are metaphors, but again, so what?
I just realized this author is Nietzsche and that compels me to change my viewpoint and how I read this essay but I don’t want it to. I’m going to attempt to pretend I don’t know the author, to be objective.
“…a leaf is the cause of leaves”??? what does that mean? I know what he’s trying to say but he’s being a dumbhead and wordy.
Metonymies: a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (as “crown” in “lands belonging to the crown”)
I found Pascal’s theory very interesting: “…if the same dream came to us every night we would be just as occupied with it as we are with the things that we see every day.” Dreams are a different animal though… everything in a dream is fascinating and in your face.
So, Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense should have told me it was going to be pointless to me...
This was a difficult read. I don’t think I liked it.
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